Yes, this is our 100th post. I told Steve we were coming up on it, and asked him if maybe he wanted his first post to be our 100th, and he said “you’ve written 99 posts already?” Well, it’s been a while, so yeah, I’ve written that many. Anyway, I thought I needed something memorable or exciting, so I’ve really put off posting anything that has been sort of in the works because it didn’t seem worthy. And now I realize that if I keep waiting for something huge to come up, it will never get written. So, here is something kind of stupid I came across today that I thought I would share.
First, a bit of background. In addition to the various interior design classes I am taking this semester, I am taking an online business law course. It is required for the advanced certificate in interior design, and I thought it would be pretty easy for me since I already have a fair amount of education and experience in that area. Every other week, we have a discussion question that we are supposed to post a comment about in an online forum. Two weeks ago, the teacher gave us our first question, due today. It is “if you could change one thing in the Constitution, what would it be and why?”
I’ll talk a little bit about some of the responses in a minute, but here is the point of this post: At 5:08 pm today, one of my classmates sends an email to the entire class, sans the instructor, saying he knows it is due today, but do we know if there is an exact time deadline or if he has until 11:59 p.m. I had to restrain myself from responding to him because the only thing I could think to say was
Dear Dumb-Ass,
In the time it took you to compose your message and send it out to the entire class, you could have completed the assignment, making your stupid question moot.
Sincerely,
Erin
It’s just not that hard. One or two sentences. That’s it.
It seems like most of the class has probably already posted their responses. Some are rather silly, some are stretching it to say they are written in English, and some are pretty thoughtful. What I’ve found the most interesting, though, is how un-politically correct many of them are. I chose something I thought would be pretty uncontroversial because I did not want to offend anyone. Some people . . . not real worried about that. There are people who have no qualms about saying they want to deport illegal aliens in summary proceedings and get rid of the 14th Amendment provision that persons born on U.S. soil are citizens. And they are happy to say it in a way that makes them sound xenophobic and racist.
That is not to say that those proposed changes might not be good ideas. If you are going to make such a proposal, though, you should probably do it in a way that does not imply that illegal immigrants are lazy slobs who aren’t paying taxes, or are terrorists trying to cause civil unrest. Because clearly there are people in our class that were not born here and/or are not citizens, and if I were them I might take offense. Just a thought.
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